Bug 1574378

Summary: [RFE] Output resulting from command 'dnf help [<command>]' is not in accordance with intended behavior
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: ricky.tigg
Component: dnfAssignee: rpm-software-management
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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dnf help [<command>] – Output model none

Description ricky.tigg 2018-05-03 07:29:54 UTC
Created attachment 1430517 [details]
dnf help [<command>] – Output model

Description of problem: Output resulting from command 'dnf help [<command>]' is not in accordance with intended behavior.

Version-Release number of component: dnf.noarch 2.7.5-12.fc28
How reproducible: Test case with any command 'dnf help [<command>]'
Actual results: Attachment; Tested with '$ dnf help makecache'.
Expected results: Description exclusively associated to '[<command>]' to be as output; here for instance 'generate the metadata cache'.

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 20:47:36 UTC
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Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-05-28 22:39:54 UTC
Fedora 28 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-05-28. Fedora 28 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
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Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2020-04-30 20:26:15 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 30 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 30 on 2020-05-26.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
Fedora 'version' of '30'.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version.

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not 
able to fix it before Fedora 30 is end of life. If you would still like 
to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version 
of Fedora, you are encouraged  change the 'version' to a later Fedora 
version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 4 Jaroslav Mracek 2023-08-23 06:26:55 UTC
The issue is already resolved in DNF5. DNF5 is available from Fedora 38. DNF5 does not have `help` command, please use `--help` option instead.

We do not have plan to delivery the feature in dnf, because it is supposed that DNF5 will replace dnf in Fedora 41.